Pope: Atomic Bombs against Japan in WW II Unethical

Pope Francis II, head of the Catholic Church in the world, was on a state visit to Japan.

He visited Nagasaki, one of the two Japanese cities shelled by atomic bombs in the final chapter of the Second World War (WW II).

He addressed a crowd gathered near Monument on Peace in the city which built-in site of dropping the bomb.

The Pope quoted a phrase  from the Bible saying: For the sake of my family and friends, I will say, "Peace be within you."(Psalm 122:8).

He added that we lift our eyes to the Almighty Lord from this place where death and life, defeat and renaissance, pain and mercy.

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A place that only remnants of men and women’s dreams stay in shadow and silence where death and destruction devoured everything in a moment.

He went to say that we hear the strong shriek of victims who were killed in thousands as a result of using the atomic bombs.

He referred to treatise of his predecessor Pope John XXIII titled: “Peace on Earth”.

The late pope said that peace is still as a mere word if it doesn’t stand with justice.

Peace lives on loving and be attained by liberty.

The Pope pointed out that communities may differ in culture and economic development but they must stick to work for the benefit of the whole world.

It is worth mentioning that Pope Francis II landed in Japan as the first stop in an Asian tour.

He is the first pope who came to Japan after his predecessor John Paul II did in 1981.

Nagasaki is the capital and the largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu in Japan.

It became a center of colonial Portuguese and Dutch influence in the 16th through 19th centuries and the Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki region have been recognized and included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.

Part of Nagasaki was home to a major Imperial Japanese Navy base during the First Sino-Japanese War and Russo-Japanese War.

During World War II, the American atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki made Nagasaki the second and, to date, the last city in the world to experience a nuclear attack (at 11:02 a.m., August 9, 1945 'Japan Standard Time.